Do you guys use Cloudflare?

I have been using CF on most of my sites mostly filler blogs, autoblogs, client sites for years.
At times it's frustrating but it's free and any issues occur once in a blue moon, on top of that he under attack mode has helped at most times from ddos.
I also use bunny CDN on a few affiliate sites.
My recent experience with rocket hosting has been great in terms of performance, they have CF enterprise included with their plans.

CF or any other CDN has become a necessity today for any serious web project.
 
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MKSKS said:
I have been using CF on most of my sites mostly filler blogs, autoblogs, client sites for years.
At times it's frustrating but it's free and any issues occur once in a blue moon, on top of that he under attack mode has helped at most times from ddos.
I also use bunny CDN on a few affiliate sites.
My recent experience with rocket hosting has been great in terms of performance, they have CF enterprise included with their plans.

CF or any other CDN has become a necessity today for any serious web project.
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Yeah thats why i added all of my sites to Cloudflare, because all of my projects are serious haha :D
 
Scorpion Ghost said:
But, eh, it is what it is. Its not a perfect world.
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My login page used to get thousands of hits every day.
I installed CF and recently hid login page... looks better now.

It's entirely up to you. Only you can answer if you need CF by doing a few tests and see if benefits outweigh the "costs (inconveniences)".
 
praetserge said:
My login page used to get thousands of hits every day.
I installed CF and recently hid login page... looks better now.

It's entirely up to you. Only you can answer if you need CF by doing a few tests and see if benefits outweigh the "costs (inconveniences)".
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What kinds of tests would these be?
 
Scorpion Ghost said:
What kinds of tests would these be?
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I did a speed test as I use shared hosting and that's the main reason I'm using CF now.
Check if it will reduce the amount of bot traffic, if you have a lot.
Also, I can hide my server IP address but it doesn't really matter.
 
Scorpion Ghost said:
I cant spend the next 6 months dealing with this.
Its already decided, Cloudflare for me.
But only because i feel like i must.
If i could do anything i wanted, i wouldnt use cloudflare. Because anything you touch in life has the potential to evolve into a serious fucking problem.
So i like to cut things out, remove, delete and burn them. Dissolve them in acid. GET FUCKING RID OF THEM.
So using cloudflare is just another bookmark in my browser, another thing to consider if moving domain registrar and/or hosting provider, another thing to consider in terms of SEO. Its just another source of potential problems.
But, well, it is what it is. Im using it on all my sites now and thats that.
Life is not exactly how we want it to be. Get used to it :p
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I have two full bookmarks of stuff in active use, but there are several things that are used a great deal more frequently than other things, and Cloudflare is one of them.
It's one of those things that becomes a pillar in your infrastructure, so rest assured that you've picked a good product to build some things around.
Slash-and-Burn the other 90%... :rolleyes:
 
getivan said:
I have two full bookmarks of stuff in active use, but there are several things that are used a great deal more frequently than other things, and Cloudflare is one of them.
It's one of those things that becomes a pillar in your infrastructure, so rest assured that you've picked a good product to build some things around.
Slash-and-Burn the other 90%... :rolleyes:
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Frequently? Why frequently? You set it up once per site, you're done forever (or a long time). What's the frequent use all about? o_O

Let's see, bookmarks...

The ones in "active" use are all in the bookmarks menu, under the address bar, very well organized in folders and sub-folders and sub-subfolder etc.

The ones that need to be checked and deleted are up in the top menu under Bookmarks.

That's the only way to do it correctly. Why? Because that's how I do it hahahaha :D
 
Scorpion Ghost said:
Frequently? Why frequently? You set it up once per site, you're done forever (or a long time). What's the frequent use all about? o_O
Let's see, bookmarks...
The ones in "active" use are all in the bookmarks menu, under the address bar, very well organized in folders and sub-folders and sub-subfolder etc.
The ones that need to be checked and deleted are up in the top menu under Bookmarks.
That's the only way to do it correctly. Why? Because that's how I do it hahahaha :D
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  • Well, yeah, anytime you setup a site, you gotta open-up Cloudflare, so you should be opening it all the time. :rolleyes:
    Also, if you need to modify DNS records, you gotta get back there.
    So, yeah, it's a key part of website oriented business infrastructure.
  • Haha, werd... I have two folders where I've shortlisted my most active stuff, and then everything else is just in several folders for long-term or special case reference purposes.
    Some things aren't used very often, but it's nice to have a bookmark for that once-in-a-while essential access.
    Most of the time, though, if something comes-to-mind, I just type part of it in the address bar, and it guesses it for me. :o
    Organization is kind-of a pain... I've tried different things, but it all comes down to just having it in your head, or jumping to a tab. :)
 
I use CF on all of my sites, I mainly use them for DNS management. Like I can have one central place for managing DNS records and DNS updates are instant.

Although, I personally do not like CF due to captchas that they show on a lot of sites.
 
getivan said:
  • Well, yeah, anytime you setup a site, you gotta open-up Cloudflare, so you should be opening it all the time. :rolleyes:
    Also, if you need to modify DNS records, you gotta get back there.
    So, yeah, it's a key part of website oriented business infrastructure.
  • Haha, werd... I have two folders where I've shortlisted my most active stuff, and then everything else is just in several folders for long-term or special case reference purposes.
    Some things aren't used very often, but it's nice to have a bookmark for that once-in-a-while essential access.
    Most of the time, though, if something comes-to-mind, I just type part of it in the address bar, and it guesses it for me. :eek:
    Organization is kind-of a pain... I've tried different things, but it all comes down to just having it in your head, or jumping to a tab. :)
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Right yeah, well, I'm actually not a churn and burn kinda guy believe it or not. I have about 7 websites and I just run those. I don't churn and burn anything other than social media accounts, and even there I do my best to keep the ones I have alive, not just recycle shit.

I just like stability, familiarity, control, not updating shit, so I try to aim for that :p

Bro you make your bookmarks toolbar in your main browser, you organize your shit so you know what's where:

Personal | E-Commerce | Forums/Blogs | Microgigs/Microjobs | Other | Websites/Blogs | Social Media | Email | News | eBanks & Cryptos

That's more or less how my bookmarks toolbar looks like. It's not all of it, some of it I keep hidden even from you, my good friend haha :D

And so each of those folders has bookmarks/sites and more folders under it. Like the Social Media one if you expand it goes:

Facebook
Youtube
Twitter
Instagram
site
site
site
Social networking (folder with social networks that I don't use often but consider important or have at least one account on)
Social video sites (folder with social video sites that I don't use often but consider important or have at least one account on)
Social media tools (various tools for social media, like dlvr, hootsuite, analytics, etc - and there's more subfolders under this one)

And that's how I live with myself :p
 
Yes, Im using Cloudflare.

I believe you can turn off that loading screen.
 
For some of my sites, it just comes with the hosting as a bundle.
They config it, they set it up, they deal with it.
If my hosting doesn't have it, I may have cloudflare set up just to hide my NS and IP
It's not full protection, but anything to deter idiots is better than nothing at all.
 
Scorpion Ghost said:
Right yeah, well, I'm actually not a churn and burn kinda guy believe it or not. I have about 7 websites and I just run those. I don't churn and burn anything other than social media accounts, and even there I do my best to keep the ones I have alive, not just recycle shit.
I just like stability, familiarity, control, not updating shit, so I try to aim for that :p
Bro you make your bookmarks toolbar in your main browser, you organize your shit so you know what's where:
Personal | E-Commerce | Forums/Blogs | Microgigs/Microjobs | Other | Websites/Blogs | Social Media | Email | News | eBanks & Cryptos
That's more or less how my bookmarks toolbar looks like. It's not all of it, some of it I keep hidden even from you, my good friend haha :D
And so each of those folders has bookmarks/sites and more folders under it. Like the Social Media one if you expand it goes:
Facebook
Youtube
Twitter
Instagram
site
site
site
Social networking (folder with social networks that I don't use often but consider important or have at least one account on)
Social video sites (folder with social video sites that I don't use often but consider important or have at least one account on)
Social media tools (various tools for social media, like dlvr, hootsuite, analytics, etc - and there's more subfolders under this one)
And that's how I live with myself :p
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  • Yeah, there are just so many good niches, and opportunities for projects.
    Many sites doesn't mean churn-and-burn... just diversification. :rolleyes:
    Also, it's good for hosting client sites, as well.
  • Yeah, I've got a full bar of folders and sub-folders, but there are so many things, it's not really practical to keep-up with it all.
    There are a small number of things I reference more regularly from the folders, but the rest are so numerous that I just end-up having to recollect them, anyways. :o
    Working on getting to a place where I maybe only bookmark pages for specific SOP processes, and that way I can just middle-mouse click a folder, when I wanna do a certain process.
    Reduce tabs, but maybe increase tab chunks for specific processes, I guess...
    Working on simplifying packages and monetization and such. :)
 
It's nice to have a free ssl certificate, that's why I usually use it and love it. The free version is not very good at protecting, but I trust the paid versions. Better to have than no protection at all.
 
Yes, I use them, on some sites with the CDN, and on some sites with the DNS only. Depends on project and client. I also use BBQ PRO firewall on my sites, that one is a beast.
 
I use their business plan, Argo routing, and their load balancers for my money site. I also used to hate it, right up until I stopped using their free plan. The free plan would always make my TTFB jump up, but that was to be expected.
With the business plan I can edge cache pages, bringing my TTFB down from 800ms to 60-something ms, which is stupid quick. Argo speeds up everything that's not cached, especially for third-world countries.
Their load balancers have some awesome features like Geo location based routing, although I'm currently only using them to switch between two servers for redundancy.
They also got the quickest DNS lookup times out there.
I get at least one MASSIVE DDoS attack every month or two, and although it doesn't always take care of them completely (partly due to issues with the way my site is set up), it allows me to sleep in peace knowing I won't have to refund my customers a big chunk of money when I wake up. And they were SUPER quick in adding in WAF filters for Log4J attacks when they first surfaced, I'm pretty sure I would've been hacked if it weren't for those given the size of my site.
CloudFlare and DigitalOcean (Droplets with Runcloud, Spaces, and managed redundant databases) are the two things I would always recommend to anyone doing anything more serious than your average WordPress site.
 
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